Game apparatus



Sept. 16, 1924. I 1,508,838

. J. c. DOLGONAS GAME APPARATUS Filed may 25. 922

Sept. 16, 192%.

JOHN C. DOLGONAS, OF CHICAGO ILLINOIS.

GAME PATUS.

Application filed my 25, 1922. Serial No. 563,519.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J OHN C. DomoNAs, a citizen of United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will enable 0 ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object. of the invention is to provide a game apparatus of the type in which a projector or missile of the rolling ty e such as a marble or the equivalent thereof is employed and which is adapted-to be manually projected under conditions involving a dis play of accuracy or marksmanshi in an effort to count by causing the said object to enter one or another of a series of openings in an enclosure afi'ording access to a plunger or bailie, by means of which a movable figure representing an object may be displaced to serve as an indicator of the efiect of the operators shot or stroke, and in this connection to provide an apparatus affording protection to the objective figures or indicators while enabling the efi'ect of the shot or stroke of the operator to be readily noted; and with these objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and relation of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawlugs, wherein,

igure 1, is a perspective view, Figure 2, is a longitudinal section, and Figure 3 is a plan view of an apparatus embodying the invention.

spond in number with the The device consists essentially of a box or casing 10, having in its front wall a series of entrances or openings 11 of a size adapted to receive a marble or like rolling, preferably spherical, object 12, and provided at its rear end with a platform 13 upon which are hingedly mounted indicatmg ob ects or figures 14 of any preferred or desired configuration or design, such as men, animals or the like, which when in the upright position indicated by the full lines in the wings are screened or protected from the front by the box or casing.

Within the box or casing, in relation to each of the entrance openinfi which correin "eating objects at the rear, are mounted the sliding follower rods 16, fitted near their front endsin hangers 16 and at their rear ends in openin 's 17 in the rear wall of the casing, said follower rods respectively carrying baiile plates or heads 18, which are respectively disposed in spanning relation with the openings in the front wall and obstruct the entrance of the marble therethrough, to the end that a marble or like rolling object projected toward the box or casing and entering one of said openings, will come in contact with the baffie plate orhead of the follower rod related with opening and impart a rearward impulse to the rod to bring its rear end into contact with the corresponding indicating objective at the rear end of the casing, with the result of moving the latter from upright to a. reclining or horizontal position, as indicated by the dotted lines in the drawing, provided the impulse imparted to the follower rod has been suflicient.

It will be understood thatthe resistance offered to the sliding movement of the follower rods may be variously modified or controlled by friction or otherwise, and the indicating objects as illustrated are provided with bases 19 normally resting upon the platform 13 and serving as a means of givmg a reasonable amount of stability to the figures to yieldingly -hold them in the normal or upright position.

In 0 eration the casing is disposed between t e player and the indicating objects, which to increase the interest in the game mayhave numerical designations which may be agreed upon mutually by the opponents to determine superiority in the game, so that only by causing the rolling object to enterone of the opemngs provided in the front of the casing can the indicatin object be thrown to a position entitling t e player to a mark or count.

Obviously the arts may be reset by manually restoring the indicating object to the upright position and accordingl the follower rod to cause its baflle plate to'resume a. position obstructing the entrance through the corresponding opening. Y

Claims:

1. A game apparatus having a casing pro vided in its front wall with entrance openings a platforr. externally of the rear wall of the casing, indicating objects hingedly carried b the platform at the rear 0 and screened the casing, hangers in the cae and s advancing cad or the 'deble follower rods mounted in Y the hengers with their rear ends in operatrtive relation with said indicating ob'eots and provided at their front ends with eads or heme plates speeed inwardly of and normolly obstructing the several entrance open- 1 ,EW MEQ of the box end in position to move the target away from seioi Well, a hen er in the box edjacent the said opening enfi slidmhly receiving the rod, and a, transverse head on the end of the rod inwardly of the opening for eng ement by e genie piece for movement of t e rod into ter%et striking position. 7

In testimony whereo I amx my signature, in the presence'of two Witnesses.

JQHN C. DQLGUNAS.

Witnesses:

R. J. Frrze, CHARLES Bnoemonz. 

